Digital Ocean VPS vs. RamNode VPS

If you are looking for an unmanaged VPS, then Digital Ocean and RamNode are both worthy contenders. Both offer SSD hard drives that are supposed to be faster than the conventional hard drives.

Both are reputed to own their own hardware and co-locate with well known datacenters.

The pricing of both is very reasonable.

If you are planning to load apache, php and mysql and wordpress on the VPS, then it is desirable to have 1 GB RAM. You can manage with less though at times of traffic, your mysql may crash for want of memory and lead to unpleasant experience for the visitors.

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Yes. More than enough. Use a cache plugin. What is relevant is the number of concurrent visitors on the site at any point of time. For instance, if you get 10,000 visitors in a day, but they come in evenly over a 12 hour period, you have only 800+ visitors in an hour or 13 visitors a second. Your 512MB RAM VPS can handle this easily. However, if all 10,000 come together, then even a dedicated VPS with 4GB RAM may crumple. What is also relevant is whether the visitors will just browse pages or download files etc.

HiThank you for that comparison. Do you think an OpenVZ SSD VPS plan with 512 megabyte of RAM is enough for running 4 WP website (very low traffic)? I will set up it with LEMP without any contol panel.

I have a server in digital ocean(6 month and still going, netherlands server) and their support has been blazing fast. I never had any issues at all, I only messaged them for random silly questions, I never had any downtime(not that I noticed). The server for 5$ has been very solid. Ramnode is very highly rated as well and I am considering getting an openvz server there because digital ocean storage is very tiny(40 GB for 20$ vs ramnode's 150 GB for 15$ ) however, Ramnode has a policy about using more than one core's worth for an "extended period" ( whatever that means) So even if you get a quad core, you can't deploy anything that uses more than one core. I'll stick to DO for cpu intensive apps(they don't have such a policy) and I will know that the core I bought is my core. And I'll use ramnode for file storage…The worst time I would want my server suspended is when my product is getting popular…